Blind China dissident urges Xi follow Myanmar path to reform

BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has urged Communist Party chief and president-in-waiting Xi Jinping to follow Myanmar's model of reform or risk a violent political transition. Chen also accused the government of breaking a promise to investigate what he says is the persecution of his family, according to a recorded message posted on YouTube by Texas-based Christian advocacy group ChinaAid, which backs him. The self-taught legal advocate's escape from house arrest in April and subsequent refuge in the U.S. ...